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Laws and Regulations for CAM

individuals in the treatment of a diversity of medical problems. Willow trees are the natural source of aspirin. Medicinal plant...

Considerations in Government Supported Stem Cell Research

heal without scarring (Muneoka 56; Pilcher 42). Unfortunately, embryonic stem cell research is an ethical quagmire. Stem cell ...

THE QUESTION OF CULTURE: LIA LEE, THE HMONG AND WESTERN MEDICINE

on p. 262 of her book. "However, I have come to believe that her life was ruined not by septic shock or noncompliant parents but b...

Genetic Research, Trend Towards Personalized Medicine

envisioned as means to optimize care, taking it to a new level of quality. The technologies associated with this trend have result...

Evidence Based Practice and Chiropractic Practice

in the 1980s by a "group of medical educators at McMasters University in Ontario, Canada" (Haneline 2007, p. 3). This group made t...

BUNDLED PAYMENTS AND CHANGE IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

This 10-page paper discusses how bundled payments might impact health care delivery in rehabilitation and physical medicine while ...

Chinese Culture and Health Beliefs

is the concept of Qi, which refers to the idea that there is an energy that flows from the surface of the body to the internal org...

Chiropractic and CAM

through the efforts of their own belief systems. However, some argue that without the additional use of conventional physical the...

Contract Payment Alternatives and HMOs

same basic framework. If specific fees are determined contractually and the HMO remains solvent, then there is little risk associ...

Herbal Medicine and Environmental Pollution

the effects of carcinogens and toxins (p. 88). Canadian scientists have found that algin, although non-digestible in an of itself...

Occupational Drug Testing of Employees

have enacted certain laws on their own which sometimes provide for testing in a much wider arena. Consider Idaho as an example. ...

Examination of CAM Therapies

reduce discomfort following surgery (NCCAM, 2004). Use of CAM has been controversial in the medical community, especially...

Exploring Complementary and Alternative Medicine

in fact no particular system that is called holism (1999). Rather, holistic medicine is really alternative. At the same time, ther...

Questioning Health Policy

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

The Role of the Physician: Differing Views in Accordance with Age, Gender, Ethnicity and OccupationVarious Perspectives on the Role of Medical Doctor

value the psychological and social factors which can equate with disease or infirmity. Nurses, although also trained primar...

Force and William Carlos Williams' 'The Use of Force'

of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...

Medicine from Ancient China

(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

Modern Medicine and Religious Traditions of the East

were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...

Two Novels on Female Relationships and Power

that is part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away from me since" (T...

Exercise in Making an Ethical Decision

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

Managed Care Power and Its Effects

staff or group model HMOs would provide all health care by the mid-1990s, but, in actuality, such HMOs have been declining in numb...

CAM in Mainstream Medicine and in the Future

invest billions annually on alternative approaches to healthcare (Allen, 2005). The National Institutes of Health estimates that ...

Nuclear Medicine: Past, Present, and Future

involves the use of radioactive isotopes to diagnose and treat disease. In more advanced technology radioactive materials are int...

Nuclear Medicine: Past, Present, and Future

the use of radioactive isotopes to diagnose and treat disease. Various types of cancer, for example, are being treated quite succ...

Love Medicine Chapter Summaries

(1934), pages 40-56. The story shifts to when Grandma is just 14. Her maiden name was Marie Lazarre. She is a headstrong girl, wit...

Complimentary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine (CAM)

record in terms of affecting improved health and welfare, Complimentary Alternative Medicine seeks an integration of mainstream me...

Using Bar Coding to Reduce Errors in Medicine Administration

technology systems" (Anderson and Wittwer, 2004, p. 5). Anderson and Wittwer describe the evolution of the system St. Marys uses,...

Humor Therapy

decreases blood pressure as well as reducing the level of stress hormones while increasing muscle flexion and boosting the immune ...

Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia.

various gods (Demand, 2000). The greatest contribution to the development of true civilization, however, occurred around 3100 BCE,...